The Benton Foundation in collaboration with UMass Boston's Community Media and Technology (CMT) program wrote a scan (scan in this sense, I am guessing, means "examine closely") of the state of Community Media in the United States. The compendium traces the history of community media, including radio, television and the internet, starting at its innovative beginnings in the 1940's at Pacifica Radio in San Francisco. read more...

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Shot in a hospital in Kangding China.

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Shot in an orphanage in Jiuzhaigou China. This is the second installment of the Children's Healing Initiative project.

ANTS Documentary Screening
Thursday, June 28
Reception starts at 7pm
Run Time: 15 minutes

In a dark edit suite, Project Documentary class participants are now putting final touches on the documentary with the working title “Ants.” See ant warfare. Watch as soldier ants fight in mandible-to-mandible combat until the death to maintain the hegemony of their respective colonies. Learn from prominent myrmecologists. See how ants started farming years before humans. All this and more at Project Documentary’s “Ants” screening this Thursday at 7pm in CCTV's studio space. Refreshments will be provided.

We are in Chengdu until tomorrow when we leave for Northern Sichuan, then off to Kangding in the Tibet region. This video is a moment captured on the back of rickshaw pedestrian taxi in the southern part of Chengdu city in China.

Chengdu from Jason Crow on Vimeo